Bank of Montreal online mortgage app circa Jan 1998 (via Internet archive). It's telling that Apply by Phone/Fax were more prominent than Apply Online. Cleaning out some (paper!) files over the weekend, I ran across an Online Banking Report article I wrote in 1997...
The first pure-play online bank Security First Network Bank (SFNB) launched in 1995, just a year after Amazon.com. But unlike ecommerce, digital-only banking was slow to catch on. The legacy players held onto their market share by providing digital services that were...
At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here). In April, we added 11 new unicorns for a month-end total of 171. Their total market value is now $1.67 trillion, up $50B from last month. Unicorn count: Beginning...
Startupbookcamp continues to accelerate fintech startups around the globe. A few months ago (Dec 2020), they graduated a new cohort of 7 startups operating in (or planning to enter) the Australian market. See previous Startupbookcamp demo day: Amsterdam (Feb 2021)...
YCombinator has been accelerating and investing in pre-seed startups for 15 years. Early on, fintech startups were a small part of its class, although Stripe (S09) and Coinbase (S12) were notable (and extremely profitable) exceptions. When I looked at YCvalums in...
At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here). In March, we added 17 new unicorns for a month-end total of 157. The total value is now $1.62 trillion, down $30B from last month. Unicorn count: Beginning (Mar 1) =...
The Fintech Innovation Lab, which launched in NYC in 2011, just held its demo day for the 20 startups in 9th London cohort. See our June 2020 post to watch demos from its latest NYC batch. The companies were divided into 4 categories, each with 5 startups: Data...
Fresh off their Best of Show win at FinovateEurope (Digital) this week, Proptee is looking to bring residential real estate to the masses. The London-based startup is in the final phases of testing a mobile app that allows users to buy shares in individual properties...
Startupbootcamp continues to crank out dozens of fintech startups each year with accelerators in Cairo, Dubai, Mexico City, Melbourne, Mumbai, London, Singapore, NYC and this one in Amsterdam (not that physical proximity means much for these virtual demo days in...
At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here). In January, we added 9 new unicorns for a month-end total of 134. The total value is now $1.65 trillion, up $230B from last month. Unicorn count: Beginning (Feb 1) =...
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